When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

383 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 April 1630(-) Composer Ercole Porta dies at the age of 44 in Italy.221 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 April 1792(-) 4th Earl of Sandwich and inventor of the sandwich John Montagu dies at the age of 73 in Chiswick, United Kingdom.201 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 April 1812(+) Kaspar Casparus Hauser aka The Wild Child, is born in Germany.169 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 April 1844(x) 26-year-old Writer and pacifist Henry David Thoreau accidently set a fire that burned over a hundred acres in Fair Haven Pond, Massachusetts, United States.143 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 April 1870(+) Composer Franz Ferenc Lehár is born in Komárno, Slovakia.139 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 April 1874(+) Clergyman and Nazi-collaborator Cyriel Verschaeve is born in Ardooie, Belgium.

130 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 April 1883(-) Artist Edouard Manet dies of untreated syphilis and rheumatism at the age of 51 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.120 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 April 1893(+) Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm von Ribbentrop is born in Wesel, Prussia, Germany.115 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 April 1898(+) Assassin of SA-Leader Horst Wessel, Albrecht Höhler is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 April 1912(-) Murderer J. J. Morris is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 44 in Utah, United States.83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 April 1930(-)Charlotte Ulrich is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, Grafenberger Wald, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 April 1930(+) Psychotherapist and philosopher Pierre-Félix Guattari is born in Villeneuve-les-Sablons, Oise, France.68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 April 1945(-) Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler commits suicide by poison and a shot through the head at the age of 56 in Berlin, FührerBunker, Berlin, Germany.
His 35-year-old lover Eva Braun follows him in death.68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 April 1945(x) The concentration camp of Ravensbruck is liberated by Russian Armed Forces in Germany.67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 April 1946(x) 17-year-old Serial Killer William George Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, is arrested for carrying a gun, but is released in Chicago, Illinois, United States.57 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 April 1956(+) Filmmaker and founder of Dogme 95 Lars von Trier is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 April 1966(x) 36-year-old Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey originally Howard Stanton Levey, announces the establishment of the one and only Church of Satan in San Francisco, California, United States.35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 April 1978(x) 41-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, goes hungerstriking to secure medical treatment in Huntingdon State Correctional Institute, Pennsylvania, United States.34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 April 1979(-)Ellen Abel is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 16 in Schriesheim, Germany.30 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 April 1983(-) Musician and Father of Chicago Blues Muddy Waters dies of natural causes at the age of 68 in Westmond, Illinois, 30 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 April 1983(-)Marie Malvar is strangled by The Green River Killer at the age of 18 in Seattle, Washington, United States.26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 April 1987(x) 41-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, is paroled and released from Stormville Prison after serving 14 of a 25-year sentence for child-murder in New York, New York, United States.14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 April 1999(x) 17-year-old Mass Murderer Christopher Churchill is sentenced to life imprisonment in Olney, Illinois, United States.
In February 1998 he killed his half-brother, Jonathan Lloyd, along with Lloyd's 35-year-old girlfriend and her three young children at their rural Richland County home, only using a hammer.11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 April 2002(-) Murderer Rodolpho Baiza Hernandez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

Monday, April 29, 2013

150 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 April 1863(+) Millionaire William Randolph Hearst is born in San Francisco, California, United States.132 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 April 1881(-) Murderer Royal Carr is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Vermont, United States.114 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 April 1899(+) Musician Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington is born in Washington, District Columbia, United States.112 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 April 1901(+) Emperor of Japan Akihito Hirohito is born in Tokyo, Aoyama Palace, Japan.106 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 April 1907(+) Musician Tino Constantino Rossi is born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France.106 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 April 1907(+) Filmmaker Fred Zinneman is born in Vienna, Wien, Austria.96 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 April 1917(+) Filmmaker Maya Deren originally Eleanora Derenkovskaya, is born in Kiev, Ukraïne, USSR.94 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 April 1919(-) Black George Holden is lynched for writing an improper not to a white woman in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

70 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 April 1943(-) Murderer August Sangret aka The Wigwam Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Wandsworth Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 April 1945(x) The concentration camp of Dachau is liberated by American Armed Forces in Germany.68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 April 1945(x) 56-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler marries 33-year-old Eva Braun in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 April 1945(+) Musician Hugh Colin Hopper is born in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom.64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 April 1949(-) Murderer Andrew Berry is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Ohio, United States.62 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 April 1951(-) Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein dies at the age of 62 in Cambridge, United Kingdom.55 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 April 1958(+) Multiple murderer Robert Wayne Vickers is born in Arizona, United States.46 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 April 1967(-)Coby Van Der Voort is beaten to death by Hans Van Zon at the age of 37 in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 April 1970(+) Actress Uma Karuna Thurman is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.42 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 April 1971(-)Edna MacDonald is strangled by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, in Barrington, United States.36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 April 1977(-)Marie-Therese Majer is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 21 in Schriesheim, Germany.33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 April 1980(-) Filmmaker Alfred Joseph Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense, dies of kidney failure at the age of 80 in Bel Air, California, United States.33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 April 1980(-)Darin Kendrick is sodomised, strangled and forced to drink chloral hydrate by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 19 in Stanton, California, United States.20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 April 1993(-) Musician Michael “Mick” Ronson dies of liver cancer at the age of 46 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 April 1997(-)David Madson is shot dead as second victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, at the age of 33 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
His body was found in a lake near Minneapolis a week later.15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 April 1998(-) Murderer Arthur Martin Ross is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, United States.

15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 April 1998(-) Murderer Frank B. McFarland is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 April 2003(-) Murderer David M. Brewer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Lucasville, Southern Correctional Facility, Ohio, United States.

Sunday, April 28, 2013

571 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 April 1442(+) King of England Edward IV is born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.255 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 April 1758(+) 4th president of the USA James Monroe is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States.243 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 April 1770(x) 41-year-old Explorer Captain James Cook lands on Botany Bay in Australia.131 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 April 1882(-) Murderer George Henry Lamson is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Wandsworth Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.124 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1889(+) Prime minister Antonio De Oliveira Salazar is born in Santa Comba Dao, Portugal.107 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 April 1906(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Adolf Hannapel is born in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.101 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1912(-) Gangster Jules Bonnot is riddled with bullets in a police-siege at the age of 35 in Choisy-le-Roi, Dubois Garage, France.99 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 April 1914(x) 183 Die in coal-mine explosion in Eccles, United States.97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 April 1916(+) Car designer Ferrucio Elio Arturo Lamborghini is born in Renazzo di Cento, Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy.95 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1918(-) Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Gavrilo Princip aka The Teenager who Changed the World, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 23 in Terezin, Czechoslowakia.94 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 April 1919(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is sentenced to 9 months imprisonment for insulting Friedel Rothe, who he presumably killed in the meantime in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 April 1924(x) 119 Die in coal-mine explosion in Benwood, United States.85 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 April 1928(+) Artist Yves Klein is born in Nice, France.84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1929(-) British eccentric painter Edith May Olive Branson is shot dead by persons unknown in Les Baux, France.76 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 April 1937(+) Ruler of Iraq Saddam Hussein is born in Al-Awja, Iraq.74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 April 1939(-) Murderer James Bailey aka Archie Lee Short, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.73 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1940(x) 39-year-old Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Ferdinand Höss is installed in Auschwitz, Poland.

70 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 April 1943(+) Musician and actor Jacques Dutronc is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.68 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 April 1945(-) Fascist leader Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 61 in Dongo, Italy.
His mistress, Claretta Pettaci is also executed.63 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 April 1950(+) TV-host Jay Leno is born in New Rochelle, New York, United States.56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1957(+) Actress Michelle Pfeiffer is born in Santa Ana, California, United States.52 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 April 1961(+) Serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga is born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan.39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1974(-) Stripper Johanna Nilsen is killed by a lion during a striptease-act in Rotterdam, Netherlands.37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 April 1976(-) Serial Killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, dies of heart-failure at the age of 29 in Eickelsborn, Germany.
He was under surgery for a full castration, which was to free him from his compulsive sexual urges.36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 April 1977(x) The leaders of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are sentenced to life-imprisonment for four murders and over 30 attempted murders in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 April 1992(-) Artist Francis Bacon dies of a heart attack at the age of 82 in Madrid, Spain.21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 April 1992(x) The grave of 67-year-old Actor Benny Hill is robbed following rumours that he was buried with large amounts of gold jewellery in Southampton, Hollybrook Cemetary, United Kingdom.17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1996(x) 28-year-old Mass murderer Martin John Bryant kills 35 people in a shooting-spree in a tourist-resort in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 April 1999(-) Murderer Aaron Foust is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.6 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 April 2007(-) Mass murderer Ayub Bulubili is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 40 in Palangkaraya jail, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 April 2010(-) Mass murderer Zheng Minsheng is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 42 in Nanping, China.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

492 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1521(-) Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is shot by a poisoned arrow and finished off with spears by local inhabitants at the age of 41 in Mactan Island, Filippines.408 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1605(-) 232nd Pope Leo XI originally Alessandro Ottaviano de Medici aka Papa Lampo, dies at the age of 69 in Rome, Roma, Italy.346 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1667(x) The blind and impoverished Poet John Milton known for “Paradise Lost”, sells the copyright of his epic poem for ten Pounds in London, London City of, United Kingdom.222 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1791(+) Inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse is born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States.191 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 April 1822(+) 18th president of the USA Ulysses Simpson Hiram Grant is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, United States.148 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 April 1865(x) 1547 Die in SS Sultana steamboat paddlewheeler explosion in the Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, United States.122 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 April 1891(+) Composer Sergey Sergeyewitsch Prokofiev is born in Sontzovka, Ukraine, Russia.119 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 April 1894(-) Murderer Samuel Vaughan is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Arkansas, United States.114 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 April 1899(+) Cartoonist and creator of Woody Woodpecker Walter Lantz is born in New Rochelle, New York, United States.98 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1915(-) Composer Alexander Nikolajewitsch Scrjabin dies of septicemia, contracted as a result of a shaving cut or a boil on his lip at the age of 43 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
His last words were "This means the end. What a catastrophe!" He claimed that he was God, and eventually acknowledged that he was inspired by Satan. Imitating Christ he was an anti-christ filled with Satan, controlled by Satan and ultimately destroyed by Satan.87 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1926(x) Mass murderess Antoinette Scieri is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.86 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1927(-)Mary McConnel is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 60 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.81 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1932(+) Actress Anouk Aimée is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1937(+) Musician, poet and artist Wannes Willy Cecile Johannes Van de Velde is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.70 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1943(-) Murderer Elisandro L. Macias is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 20 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 April 1974(x) 108 Die in Iljoeshin-18 crash in Leningrad, Russia.39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 April 1974(x) 39-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Ulrike Marie Meinhof is transferred from Stammheim Prison to Moabit Prison for the trial considering her part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1977(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, shoots Harvey, the dog of his neighbour Sam Carr in New York, Yonkers, New York, United States.31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1982(-)Jean McPaul is strangled and stabbed to death by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 40 in Bossier City, Louisiana, United States.31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1982(-) Spree Killer Woo Bum-kon commits suicide by a grenade explosion at the age of 27 in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
In two days time he killed 58 people and left 35 wounded after an argument with his girlfriend30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1983(-)Rhoda Piazza is asphyxiated and beaten to death by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 22 in Beaumont, Texas, United States.21 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 April 1992(-) Composer Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen dies of heart-failure at the age of 83 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
He was recovering from an operation.19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 1994(-) Serial Killer Timothy Wilson Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 32 in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, United States.
He was the first man to be convicted solely through DNA-evidence.18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 April 1995(-) Writer Willem Frederik Hermans dies at the age of 73 in Utrecht, Netherlands.16 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 April 1997(-)Jeffrey Trail is beaten to death with a clawhammer as first victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, at the age of 28 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 April 1998(-) Mass Murderer Ronald Taylor commits suicide by jumping from a freeway overpass at the age of 46 in Los Angeles, Artesia, California, United States.
He first killed his 40-year-old wife Ruthie, 24-year-old son Rick, 29-year-old sister-in-law Mylissa Campbell, 6-year-old niece Jolissa Morales and 24-year-old family friend Tomy Kang Jung.

15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 April 1998(-) Writer Carlos Castaneda dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, California, United States.14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 1999(x) 16-year-old Mass Murderer Lorenzo Alvarado commits suicide by a shot in the head in Los Angeles, California, United States.
He first shot his father, stepmother and 4-year-old half brother to death in the family's Hyde Park apartment.8 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 April 2005(x) The skeleton of 51-year-old Schizophrenic artist Richard Sumner is found handcuffed to a tree in Clawddnewydd, Clocaenog Forest, Wales, United Kingdom.
He had disappeared two years earlier.6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 April 2007(-) Murderer Kosaku Nata is executed by hanging at the age of 56 in Osaka, Japan.6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 April 2007(-) Murderer Yoshikatsu Oda is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Fukuoka, Japan.6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 April 2007(-) Murderer Masahiro Tanaka aka Miyashita, is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.4 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 April 2009(-) Model and actress Seung-yeon Woo commits suicide by hanging at the age of 25 in Seoul, Jamsil, South Korea.3 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 April 2010(x) Assassin of Revolutionary Leader Malcolm X, Thomas Hagan is released from prison in Manhattan, New York, United States.

Friday, April 26, 2013

215 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 April 1798(+) Artist Eugène Victor Ferdinand Delacroix is born in Charenton-Saint-Meurice, Île-de France, France.148 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1865(-) Murderer John Wilkes Booth aka The Man Who Shot President Abraham Lincoln, is shot dead by Sergeant Boston Corbett at the age of 26 in Port Royal, Virginia, United States."Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment."124 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 1889(+) Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein is born in Vienna, Wien, Austria.119 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 April 1894(+) Nazi leader Rudolf Walter Richard Hess is born in Alexandria, Egypt.113 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 April 1900(+) Seismologist Charles Francis Richter is born in Hamilton, Ohio, United States.108 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1905(+) Filmmaker Jean Vigo is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.103 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 April 1910(+) Actress Lingyu Fenggeng Ruan is born in Shanghai, China.101 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 1912(+) Science Fiction writer Alfred Elton Van Vogt is born in Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 April 1924(-)Robert Witzel is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 18 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.80 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1933(x) The Gestapo is founded by 40-year-old Nazi-leader Hermann Göring in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 April 1937(x) Over 200 Die in a Nazi-Germany bombing by the Luftwaffe's Condor-Legion in Guernica, Spain.75 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 April 1938(+) Guitarist Duane Eddy is born in Corning, New York, United States.71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 April 1942(x) 1549 Die in coal-mine explosion in Manchuria, Honkeiko Gallery, China.69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1944(-) Serial Killer Bruno Ludke is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
He was first extensively experimented upon by the SS.63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1950(+) Serial Killer Thomas Quick originally Sture Ragnar Bergwall, is born in Korsnäs, Falun, Sweden.61 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 April 1952(x) 176 Die in US Hobson destroyer and US Wasp aircraftcarrier collision in the Atlantic.54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 April 1959(+) Mass-murderer Dirk De Winne is born in Belgium.

45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 1968(-) Collage artist John Heartfield originally Helmut Jozef Hertzfeld, dies at the age of 76 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 April 1969(+) Double murderess Teresa Lewis is born in Virginia, United States.42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 April 1971(x) 25-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden starts his performance "Five Day Locker Piece" at the University of California in Irvine, California, United States.
It lasted until 1 March 1972.39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 1974(x) 19 Old Masters are stolen from the house of millionaire Sir Alfred Beit by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army serving as ransom for money and the freedom of some of their imprisoned members in Dublin, Wicklow, Ireland.31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 April 1982(x) 112 Die in Trident crash in Guilin, China.29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 April 1984(-) Bandleader William “Count” Basie dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 79 in Hollywood, Florida, United States.28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 1985(x) 25-year-old Serial Killer Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, is sentenced to life imprisonment in an asylum for the criminally insane in Bremen, Germany.27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 April 1986(x) An unknown number of people die and thousands are infected with radiation due to a fire in a nuclear reactor in Tsjernobyl, Russia.24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1989(-) Secretary to the Prime Minister, Ihei Aoki commits suicide by a scandal in Tokyo, Japan.24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1989(-) Actress Lucille Désirée Ball dies of a dissecting aortic aneurysm at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, United States.22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 1991(-) Nazi-executioner Walter Reder aka The Slaughterer of Marzabotto, dies at the age of 76 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 April 1994(x) 264 Die in China Airlines Flight 140 Airbus A-300-600 crash in Nagoya Airport, Japan.19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 April 1994(-) Murderer Larry Anderson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 April 1997(-) Double Murderer Ernest Baldree is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.11 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 2002(-) Spree Killer Alton Coleman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Lucasville, Southern Correctional Facility, Ohio, United States.
He had standing death sentences in Indiana and Illinois resulting from a 54-day rampage of rape, abduction and murder which left eight dead.11 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 2002(-) Mass murderer Robert Steinhäuser commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 19 in Erfurt, Germany.
He shot and killed 16 people in the Gutenberg-Gymnasium before.9 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 April 2004(-) Writer Hubert Jr. Selby dies of tuberculosis at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
He took the Last Exit to Brooklyn.9 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 April 2004(-) Murderer Song Baoliang is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Beijing, China.
He was executed for paying 10.000 yuan ($1.204) to hire a killer to murder his mistress' husband.9 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 April 2004(-) Murderer Li Yong is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Beijing, China.6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 April 2007(-) Murderer Ryan Dickson is executed by lethal injection in Texas, United States.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

798 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 April 1215(+) Saint King Louis IX is born in Poissy, France.418 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 April 1595(-) Poet Torquato Tasso dies of feeble health at the age of 51 in Sant'Onofrio, Italy.269 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 April 1744(-) Astronomer Anders Celsius dies of tuberculosis at the age of 42 in Uppsala, Sweden.222 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 April 1791(-) Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, Place de Grève, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
It is the first ever execution by the Guillotine.154 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 April 1859(x) British and French engineers start digging the Suez Canal in Port Said, Egypt.139 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 April 1874(+) Inventor Guglielmo Marchese Marconi is born in Bologna, Palazzo Marescalchi, Italy.129 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 April 1884(+) Racer and automobile manufacterer Arthur Chevrolet is born in La-Chaux-De-Fonds, Neuchatel, Switzerland.112 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 1901(-) Train robber Tom Thomas Edward Ketchum aka Black Jack Ketchum, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Clayton, Union County, New Mexico, United States.
On the trapdoor he shouts “I’ll be in Hell before you start breakfast, boys!”, then he drops and his head is torn off due to a mistied rope.111 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 April 1902(+) Nazi-Doctor Werner Heyde aka Fritz Sawade, is born in Forst, Germany.96 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 1917(+) Musician Ella Jane Fitzgerald aka The First Lady of Song, is born in Newport News, Virginia, United States.92 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 April 1921(+) Artist Karel Christiaan Appel is born in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.78 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 1935(x) A recently caught tiger-shark swimming in a public aquarium regurgitates the tattood arm of 40-year-old James Smith, victim of Murderer Patrick Brady in Sydney, Coogee Beach, New South Wales, Australia.73 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 1940(+) Actor Al Pacino is born in New York, New York, United States.68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 1945(x) 52-year-old Nazi-leader Hermann Göring is arrested and sentenced to death for treason by the SS in München, Bayern, Germany.67 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 1946(-) Murderer Abraham Gold is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, United States.62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 1951(-) Murderer Joseph Brown is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in London, Wandsworth Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 1951(-) Murderer Edward Charles Smith is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in London, Wandsworth Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.47 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 April 1966(x) 81 Army cadets Die in Lockheed Elektra crash in Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States.41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 April 1972(-)Jeanette Kamahele is presumably murdered by Zodiac at the age of 20 in Sahoma County, California, United States.40 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 1973(x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to one year imprisonment for an attack on a boy in San Francisco, California, United States.39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 1974(-) Wife of Jim, Pam Susan Courson Morrison dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 27 in Los Angeles, California, United States.38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 April 1975(-)Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Ulrich Wessel due to an unintended explosion at the age of 29 in Stockholm, West German Embassy, Sweden.Siegfried Hausner was severely burned in the explosion and died 10 days later in Stammheim Prison.37 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 April 1976(-) Sniper Moses Pearson commits suicide by a shot through the head in Georgia, United States.
He was closed in by the police.35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 April 1978(x) 25-year-old PFLP member Souhalia Andrawes aka Soraya Ansari, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the hi-jacking of the "Landshut" Boeing in an attempt to liberate imprisoned Rote Armee Fraktion members in Mogadishu, Somalia.
She was the only one of four terrorists to survive the action.33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 April 1980(x) 8 US-soldiers die in a helicopter-crash in an attempt to free the American hostages in their embassy in Teheran, Iran.25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 April 1988(x) 68-year-old John Demjanjuk aka Iwan The Terrible, is sentenced to death for the mass-murders in the Treblinka concentration-camp in Jeruzalem, Israël.

25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 April 1988(-) Radical Feminist and founder of the Society for Cutting Up Men,Valerie Jean Solanas dies of emphysema at the age of 52 in San Francisco, Tenderloin, Bristol Hotel, California, United States.22 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 1991(-) Neo-Nazi Leader Michael Kühnen dies of aids at the age of 35 in Kassel, Germany.18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 April 1995(-) Actress Ginger Rogers originally Virginia McMath, dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 83 in Rancho Mirage, California, United States.13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 April 2000(-)Nguyen Thi Hiep is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 44 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
In 1997 she tried to smuggle a kilo of heroin through Hanoi Airport.12 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 2001(-) Murderer David Lee Goff is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 2002(x) 225 Die in China Airlines Flight 611 Boeing 747-200 crash in Taiwan Strait.
The plane broke into pieces in mid-air due to metal fatigue.8 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 April 2005(x) 107 Die in a crowded Rapid Service train derailment in Amagasaki, Japan.6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 2007(-) Musician Bobby Boris Pickett aka The Guy Lombardo of Halloween, dies of leukemia at the age of 69 in Los Angeles, Veterans Hospital, California, United States.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

480 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 April 1533(+) Prince and Count of Nassau Willem Van Oranje aka Willem De Zwijger aka William The Silent, is born in Dillenburg, Nassau, Germany.

455 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 April 1558(x) 15-year-old Queen of Scots Mary Stuart marries the Dauphin of France, 14-year-old François II in Paris, Notre Dame, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.282 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 1731(-) Writer and journalist Daniel Defoe known for “Robinson Crusoe”, dies at the age of 71 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.226 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 1787(+) Criminologist and founder of toxicology Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila is born in Mahon, Minorca, Spain.160 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 April 1853(+) Criminologist Alphonse Bertillon is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.157 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 April 1856(+) Marshall Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain is born in Cauchy-à-la-Tour, Pas-de-Calais, France.138 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 April 1875(x) 27-year-old Outlaw Jesse Woodson James marries his niece, Zerelda ‘Zee’ James in Missouri, United States.110 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 April 1903(+) Founder of the Fascist Falange, José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Saenz De Heredia is born in Madrid, Spain.109 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 April 1904(+) Artist Willem De Kooning is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.91 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 April 1922(-) Murderer Colin Ross is executed by hanging in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.84 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 April 1929(-) Multiple Murderer Vernon Booher is executed by hanging in Alberta, Fort Saskatchewan jail, Canada.79 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 1934(+) Actress Shirley MacLaine originally Shirley Beaty, is born in Richmond, Virginia, United States.71 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 April 1942(+) Actress Barbara Streisand is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.63 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 April 1950(x) 46-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, plants his first bomb in a phone booth in New York, Fifth Avenue, outside the public library, New York, United States.49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 April 1964(-)Helen Catherine Barthelemey Helene Paul Thompson,, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 23 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.46 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 April 1967(-) Soviet cosmonaut and the first human to die during a space mission Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov dies in a crash with Soyoez I at the age of 40 in Orenburg Oblast, Russia.40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 1973(x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, gives himself up, confessing to a career of murder and mutilation in Pueblo, Colorado, United States.39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 April 1974(-) Actor Bud William Alexander Abbott dies of prostate cancer at the age of 73 in Woodland Hills, Motion Picture and Television Hospital, California, United States.38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 April 1975(x) 113 Die in Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crash in New York, New York, United States.38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 April 1975(x) The Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Kommando Holger Meins featuring several members of the Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv attack the West German embassy, set it on fire and take 13 hostages in Stockholm, Sweden.
Four people die, including two of the terrorists.36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 April 1977(-)Tina Atkinson aka Mitra McGhee, is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 32 in Bradford, Manningham, 9 Oak Avenue, United Kingdom.35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 April 1978(x) Serial Killer Zodiac writes an ‘I am back’-letter to The San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, California, United States.30 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 April 1983(-)Paula Golding is abducted and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 1984(-) Westland New Post leader Paul Latinus commits suicide by hanging in Court-Saint-Etienne, Brabant, Belgium.29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 1984(x) 45-year-old Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is taken on a flight to locate some of his victims’ graves. 3 days later he found 7, all near the Knik River in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.18 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 April 1995(x) Gilbert Murray is killed by a bomb mailed by 52-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in Sacramento, Forest Association Office, California, United States.Kaczinski also mails more letters to the New York Times, Washington Post and Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, containing his “Industrial Society and its Future” manifesto.16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 April 1997(-) Murderer John A. Jr. Brown is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 April 1998(x) 50-year-old Radical Hutu-Power-leader Froduald Karamira and 21 other Hutu-leaders are publicly executed by the firing squad on market-squares and in football-stadions in five main cities where they have been responsible for the 1994 genocides in Nyamata and in Kigali, Rwanda.15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 April 1998(-) Murderer Joseph Cannon is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 April 1998(-) Murderess Lesley Lee Gosch is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.10 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 April 2003(-) Murderer Gary Brown is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Alabama, United States.8 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 April 2005(+) The world’s first cloned dog Snuppy is born in Seoul, South Korea.
The puppy was created using the cell of an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers.6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 2007(-) Murderer James Filiaggi is executed by lethal injection in Ohio, United States.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

997 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1016(-) King of England Ethelred the Unready dies at the age of 48 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.449 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 April 1564(+) Writer William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.416 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 April 1597(x) "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by 33-year-old Writer William Shakespeare is first performed in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.
Queen Elizabeth I was among the audience.397 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 April 1616(-) Writer William Shakespeare dies of a bad cold at the age of 52 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.
He drank a bit too much on a birthday-party and went home catching the deadly cold.397 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 April 1616(-) Writer Miguel Saavedra de Cervantes dies at the age of 68 in Madrid, Spain.238 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 April 1775(+) Artist William Joseph Mallord Turner is born in London, Covent Garden, London City of, United Kingdom.222 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 April 1791(+) 15th president of the USA James Buchanan is born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, United States.163 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1850(-) Romantic poet William Wordsworth dies of pleurisy at the age of 80 in Cumberland, United Kingdom.155 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 April 1858(+) Physicist Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck is born in Kiel, Germany.128 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 April 1885(x) Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial poisoner Maria Catharina Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, for the poisoning of over 100 people, killing at least 30, in Leiden, Netherlands.118 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1895(+) Detective-writer Ngaio Edith Marsh is born in Christchurch, New Zealand.106 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1907(-) Notorious Cannibal Alfred G. “Alferd” Packer dies of senility at the age of 65 in Deer Creek, Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
In 1874 he killed a party of gold-seekers, for which he featured as a guide, and ate them.106 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1907(+) Photographer Lee Elizabeth Miller aka Lady Penrose, is born in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.85 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 April 1928(+) Actress Shirley Jane Temple is born in Santa Monica, California, United States.77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 April 1936(+) Musician Roy Kelton Orbison is born in Vernon, Texas, United States.73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1940(x) 198 Die in The Rhythm Night Club fire in Natchez, Mississippi, United States.72 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 April 1941(x) Greece capitulates for Nazi-Germany.52 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 April 1961(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, abducts and rapes an unidentified 11-year-old girl in St. Martin, Jersey.51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 April 1962(-)Petra Giese is strangled and partly eaten by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 13 in Dinslaken-Bruckhausen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.46 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 April 1967(x) 39-year-old Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, escapes from the Missouri State Penitentiary, but is recaptured a couple of days later in Missouri, United States.45 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1968(+) Patriot Movement member Timothy McVeigh aka The Oklahoma Bomber, is born in Lockport, New York, United States.44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 April 1969(-)Linda Savee is strangled and a breast cut off by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 22 in Salem, Oregon, United States.
The breast he used as a paper-weight.39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1974(x) Start of the trial against 23-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1974(x) 28-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Trans-fixed" in Venice, California, United States.33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 April 1980(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Installation - 3" at the Symposium d'Art Performance in Lyon, Maison des Avocats, France.31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 April 1982(x) 39-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to Professor Patrick Fisher at Pennsylvania University in Provo, Utah, United States.
The package is forwarded to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 April 1986(-) Actor and filmmaker Otto Ludwig Preminger dies of cancer and Alzheimer's disease at the age of 79 in New York, New York, United States.22 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 April 1991(-) New York Doll Johnny Thunders originally John Anthony Genzale Jr., dies of drug related causes at the age of 38 in New Orleans, St. Peter House, room 37, Louisiana, United States.
His death may also been the result of a robbery or foul drug deal.21 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 April 1992(-) Murderer William ‘Billy’ Wayne White is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
It took the executioner 47 minutes to find a suitable vein, White eventually helped him.

20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 April 1993(x) 33-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "The Murder of Petra Giese" in Bochum, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 April 1998(-) Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 70 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 April 1998(x) The country’s most feared criminal, 41-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux escapes from the courthouse, where he was consulting the records for his defence, by knocking down a state trooper and running out of the building in Neufchateau, Luxemburg, Belgium.
He is found by a forest watcher about 3 hours later in a wood, where his stolen car got stuck in the mud.14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 April 1999(-) Mass Murderer David J. Lawrie is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Smyrna, Delaware, United States.6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 April 2007(-) First President of the Russian Federation Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 76 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.3 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 April 2010(-) Air traffic journalist Levent Salim Bergkotte commits suicide by stabbing to death 37-year-old Alastair Whewell, pilot of the Piper Cherokee PA-28 they were flying, and shutting down the engine of the sports plane at the age of 33 in Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina.

Monday, April 22, 2013

289 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 April 1724(+) Philiosopher Immanuel Kant is born in Königsberg, Prussia, Germany.247 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 April 1766(+) Writer Germaine Anne Louise de Staël originally Germaine Necker aka Madame, is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.173 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 April 1840(+) Painter Odilon Redon is born in Bordeaux, France.143 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 April 1870(+) Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is born in Simbirsk, Russia.122 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 April 1891(+) Anarchist and supposed murderer Nicola Ferdinando Sacco is born in Torremaggiore, Fogia, Italy.114 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 April 1899(+) Writer Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Nabokov is born in St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia.109 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 April 1904(+) Scientist and Father of the Atomic Bomb, Robert Julius Oppenheimer is born in New York, New York, United States.97 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 April 1916(+) Composer Yehudi Menuhin is born in New York, New York, United States.91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 April 1922(+) Musician Charles Mingus is born in Nogales, Arizona, United States.90 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 April 1923(+) TV-series-maker Aaron Spelling is born in Dallas, Texas, United States.90 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 April 1923(+) Fetish model Bettie Mae Page aka the Queen of Pinups, is born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.88 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 April 1925(-) Murderer John Norman Holmes Thorne is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in London, Wandsworth Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.83 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 April 1930(-) Murderer William Henry Podmore is executed by hanging in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.

80 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 April 1933(-) Automobile pioneer Henry Frederick Royce dies at the age of 70 in West Wittering, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
His last words were reported to be, "I wish I had spent more time in the office."79 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 April 1934(-) FBI-agent Carter Baum is killed by George Nelson originally Lester Joseph Gillis aka Baby Face, at the age of 29 in Spider Lake, Colorado, United States.76 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 April 1937(+) Actor Jack Nicholson is born in Neptune, New Jersey, United States.71 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 April 1942(-)Alice Porter is crucified by Fern Donald in Pueblo Church, Colorado, United States.68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 April 1945(-) Artist Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz dies at the age of 77 in Moritzburg, Germany.67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 April 1946(+) Filmmaker John Samuel Waters is born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 April 1952(+) Pornographic actress Marilyn Chambers originally Marilyn Ann Briggs, is born in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.53 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 April 1960(-) Murderer Lawrence Wade is executed by the Gas Chamber in San Quentin Prison, California, United States.53 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 April 1960(-)Valeska Eder is shot dead by Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, in Nürnberg, Tuchgartenstraße, Bayern, Germany.43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 April 1970(-)H. Kecinski commits suicide due to distress in Fahrdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
He also kills his wife and 7 children.41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 April 1972(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, marries his third wife, Penny Sherbino in Watertown, New York, United States.36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 April 1977(-)Debra Schlesinger is stabbed to death by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat at the age of 18 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 April 1980(x) 313 Die in Don Juan shipwreck in Manila, Filippines.30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 April 1983(-) Murderer John Evans is executed by Old Sparky in Alabama, United States.
After the first jolt of electricity, sparks and flames erupted from the electrode attached to his leg. The electrode then burst from the strap holding it in place and caught on fire. Smoke and sparks came out from under the hood. Two physicians entered the chamber and found a heartbeat. The electrode was reattached to his leg. More smoke and burning flesh. Again doctors found a heartbeat. Ignoring the pleas of Evan's lawyer, Russ Canan, a third jolt was applied. The execution took 14 minutes and left Evan's body charred and smoldering.29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 April 1984(-)April Brunais is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 16 in Griswold, Connecticut, United States.29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 April 1984(-)Leslie Shelley is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 14 in Griswold, Connecticut, United States.27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 April 1986(-) Black Vietnam-veteran and murderer David Funchess is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 in Starke State Prison, Florida, United States.21 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 April 1992(x) 206 Die in numerous gasoline explosions in the sewer system in Guadalajara, Mexico.19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 April 1994(-) 37th president of the USA Richard Mulhouse Nixon dies of a stroke at the age of 81 in New York City, New York, United States.
He was the only president to resign without completing an elected term.15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 April 1998(-) Murderer Jose R. Villafuerte is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.11 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 April 2002(-) Porn Actress Linda Lovelace originally Linda Susan Boreman, dies of massive trauma and internal injuries after a car accident on 3 April at the age of 53 in Denver, Colorado, United States.10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 April 2003(-) Murderer Juan Rodriguez Chavez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.9 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 April 2004(x) 150 Die in two fuel trains collision in Ryongchon, North Korea.7 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 April 2006(x) 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "The Discovery of James Lee Byars' Tomb" in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

314 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 April 1699(-) Dramatist Jean Racine dies of liver cancer at the age of 59 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.197 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 April 1816(+) Writer Charlotte Brontë known for ‘Jane Eyre’, is born in Thornton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.164 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 April 1849(-) Murderer James Blomfield Rush aka The Killer in the Fog, is executed by hanging at the age of 49 in Norwich Gaol, United Kingdom.105 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 April 1908(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Hermann Speichert is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.103 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 April 1910(-) Writer Mark Twain originally Samuel Langhorne Clemens, dies of angina pectoris at the age of 74 in Redding, Connecticut, United States.98 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 April 1915(+) Actor Anthony Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn is born in Chihuahua, Mexico.97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 April 1916(-) Murderer Joe Lee is excuted at the age of 83 in Virginia, United States.
He was the oldest person ever to be executed in the USA.95 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 April 1918(-) War pilot Manfred Von Richthofen aka The Red Baron, is shot in the air at the age of 30 in Morlancourt Ridge near Vaux-sur-Somme, France.
He died following an extremely serious and inevitably fatal chest wound from a single bullet, penetrating from the right armpit and resurfacing next to the left nipple.87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 April 1926(+) Queen of England Alexandra Mary Elizabeth II is born in London, Mayfair, London City of, United Kingdom.83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 1930(+) Artist Dieter Roth is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 1930(x) 322 convicts Die in cell-block fire in State Penitentiary, Ohio, United States.79 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 April 1934(+) Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Hugo Huges is born in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.72 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 1941(-) Axe-murderer Germaine Godefroy is executed by the Guillotine in Angers, France.66 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 1947(+) Musician Iggy Pop originally James Newell Osterberg Jr., is born in Muskegon, Michigan, United States.64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 April 1949(-) Murderer Harry Lewis is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in London, Pentonville Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.62 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 April 1951(+) Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, is born in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium.44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 1969(-)Sharon Wood is attacked by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 24 in Portland, Oregon, United States.
She survived.42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 April 1971(-) Dictator of Haiti François Duvalier aka Papa Doc, dies at the age of 64 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 April 1973(-)Clarnell Strandberg-Kemper is shot dead and decapitated by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, in Santa Cruz, California, United States.
He also threw darts at his mother’s head and trashed her vocal cords because she always yelled at him.36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 April 1977(-) Actor and filmmaker Gummo Milton Marx dies at the age of 83 in Palm Springs, California, United States.34 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 April 1979(-)Gudrun Thome is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 15 in Rot, Heidelberg, Germany.23 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 April 1990(-) Murderer Jerome Butler is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, United States.21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 April 1992(-) Double murderer Robert Alton Harris aka The Smiling Killer, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 39 in San Quentin Prison, California, United States.
It was the first execution after a 25-year stay in California. His last words were "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper".16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 1997(-) Murderer Benjamin Boyle is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 April 1998(-) Philosopher Jean-François Lyotard dies of pneumonia and lungcancer at the age of 73 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.10 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 April 2003(-) Singer, songwriter and civil rights activist Nina Simone aka The High Priestess of Soul, dies of breast cancer at the age of 70 in Carry-le-Rouet, France.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

699 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 April 1314(-) Pope Clementius V originally Raymond Bertrand de Got, dies at the age of 50 in Roquemaure, Gard, France.182 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 April 1831(-) Mass murderess Margaretha Gottfried Gesche Timm is executed in Germany.
She killed over 15 relatives.124 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 April 1889(+) Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is born in Braunau, Gasthof zum Pommer, Germany.120 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1893(+) Artist Juan Mirò is born in Barcelona, Spain.120 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1893(+) Actor and filmmaker Harold Clayton Lloyd is born in Burchard, Nebraska, United States.106 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 April 1907(x) 15-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, is court-martialed for stealing government-property and is sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in United States.105 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 April 1908(+) Musician Lionel Leo Hampton is born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.101 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 April 1912(-) Writer Bram Abraham Stoker known for "Dracula", dies of tertiary syphilis at the age of 64 in London, St George’s Square 26, London City of, United Kingdom.96 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 April 1917(-) Explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett vanishes into the Matto Grossi Jungle, probably killed and eaten by the Kalapolos Indians at the age of 49 in Brazil.96 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 April 1917(-)Andrée Babelay is killed by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, in Gambais, France.85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 April 1928(-) Murderer Ellisworth Kelley is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Oregon, United States.85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 April 1928(-) Murderer James Willos is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Oregon, United States.77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 April 1936(x) 30-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe is arrested walking around the street with the cut off penis and testicles of her lover Kichizo Ishida in her handbag in Shinagawa, Japan.
After her arrest, Ishida's penis and testicles were moved to Tokyo University Medical School's pathology museum. They were put on public display not long after the end of World War II, but they have since disappeared.73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 April 1940(+) Writer Jan ‘I’ Cremer is born in Enschede, Netherlands.70 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1943(+) Actress Edie Edith Minturn Sedgwick is born in Santa Barbara, California, United States.64 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 April 1949(+) Actress Jessica Lange is born in Cloquet, Minnesota, United States.

60 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 April 1953(+) Musician James Siegfried aka James White aka James Chance, is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1954(-)Mme Pirotte is beaten to death by Nestor Pirotte in Belgium.55 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 April 1958(x) 21-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, marries Elisabeth ‘Betty’ Baumgard in Elkton, Maryland, United States.48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1965(x) 31-year-old Murderer Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Kray aka The Profession of Violence, marries 21-year-old Frances Shea in London, London City of, United Kingdom.48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1965(x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for burglary in Walla Walla, Washington, United States.46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1967(x) 126 Die in Swissair Airliner crash in Nicosia, Cyprus.45 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 April 1968(x) 123 Die in SuidAfrikaanse Lugdiens Boeing 707 crash in Windhoek, South Africa.43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 April 1970(x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends a diagram how to blow up a schoolbus to the San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, California, United States.41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1972(-)Jimmy Wallace is stabbed and his penis cut off by Charlie Chopoff at the age of 10 in New York, West Side, New York, United States.
He survived, the penis was found the next day while some kids were playing with it.35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1978(x) 48-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from the St. Paul mental hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1978(x) Korean Air Lines Flight 902 Boeing 707 is shot at with R-60 missiles by Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 'Flagon' fighters after violating Soviet airspace in Loukhi, Murmansk, Russia.
Two passengers died.29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 April 1984(-)Caecili Hidde is strangled by Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, at the age of 83 in Berlin, Neukölln, Berlin, Germany.27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 April 1986(x) Over 1000 Die in Ekhlas Star ferry shipwreck in Dacca, Dhaleswhari River, Bangladesh.25 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 April 1988(x) Albrecht Dürer's "Lamentation for Christ", "Paumgartner Altar" and "Mater Dolarosa" are attacked with acid by 50-year-old Serial Vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann aka The Acid Assassin, in München, Alte Pinakothek, Bayern, Germany.22 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 April 1991(-) Small Faces guitarist Steve Stephen Peter Marriott dies in a fire due to smoking in bed while falling asleep at his 16th century house at the age of 44 in Arkesden, Essex, United Kingdom.18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1995(x) 52-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to the Sacramento Forest Association Office in Oakland, California, United States.
He also mails letters to the New York Times, Professor David Gelernter at Yale University, Research director of New England Biolabs Richard J. Roberts and head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s biology department Phillip A. Sharp.15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 April 1998(x) German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion announce their dissolution after 28 years of Stadtguerilla in Germany.14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1999(-) Serial Killer Yuhui Li is executed by the Firing Squad in Bejing, China.14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1999(-) Mass Murderer Dylan Bennet Klebold aka The Columbine High School Killer, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 17 in Columbine, Colorado, United States.
With Eric Harris he killed 15 people in the Columbine High School14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1999(-) Mass Murderer Eric David Harris aka The Columbine High School Killer, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 18 in Columbine, Colorado, United States.
With Dylan Klebold he killed 15 people in the Columbine High School9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 2004(-) Musician Lizzy Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux dies of cancer at the age of 47 in Saint-Florent, Corsica, France.8 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 April 2005(-) Murderer Douglas Alan Roberts is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.